A few years ago I was the same. Hated it. I didn't want the new Photoshop anymore. About a year ago I _needed_ the new photoshop to work on some files. I usually need it about once every 3-4 months for a week or so (doing most of the work in Sketch and Pixelmator otherwise). So, I subscribed for a month, cancelled when I was done. Total cost - $10. Will do it again when I need to, and will be sure that I get the latest version again. Works a treat.

Also I used to hate cloud storage... preferring see more to own a home NAS + DAS devices. They brake sometimes, disks need to replaced, software updated... so I still had to spend time to manage them. Plus, a few months ago they all went kaput in the house fire. Total cost over about 10 years is at $3000+. Now I can get Amazon cloud drive for $700 for 10 years, no maintenance required, fire-proof, accessible from any device.

Another example - we've bought a customer support script for about $600 for Boonex a few years ago. I looked good on paper, but didn't work that well. To update it now, we'd need to pay another $200 or so. Still not being sure it would work well. Instead we went for a service that costs us about $30/month... tried it for a while, didn't like it, changed to another one for about the same price, didn't like it, and finally settled for yet another one (intercom) which is more expensive, but work much better than all the others did. It also gets nifty improvements every couple of weeks without us having to update anything, apply anything or pay extra for them.

So, I'm really warming up to subscriptions.